ByPeter Chawaga,
Contributor.
The Los Angeles Dodgers managed a rare feat when they won a consecutive World Series Championship to cap off a season under scrutiny.
After the team followed up its acquisitions of Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto with several more star additions this past winter, it entered the season as a preeminent championship favorite, earning plenty of negative attention for its leading payroll. And even after the team won its back-to-back title, the negative attention persisted.
“That’s why baseball sucks,” former Philadelphia Eagles star turned podcast host Jason Kelce said on the “New Heights” show shortly after the Dodgers won. “You just buy World Series championships.”
